And the Winner is…

…me! Check out Bill of the Birds’ Caption Contest #10 and the announcement of the winner. This kind of makes up for the other thing I “won” this week, which was being selected for jury duty. I just hope Kanye doesn’t show up and say Beyonce had a better caption than I did…

Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.

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Donna Schulman

October 25, 2009 9:54:55 pm

I am impressed. You had steep competition. Now, all you need are some backyard birds for your prize.

The main problem with jury duty in Queens (assuming it is in Queens) is that it is not jury duty in Manhattan. You can’t go to Chinatown for lunch. You can’t go anywhere for lunch! Three courthouses, and not one near a good cheap restaurant.

And I was called in Queens, and I live close enough to the courthouses to walk home…but I have postponed being a juror until April because I would have had to start calling two days after Daisy’s due date.

And, good move with postponement. Now that Lou’s daughter has given birth to the triplets, it’s your turn! (I went many years without jury duty because they used to have a mom clause. They really need a birders clause, which says birders can’t be called in May or if a rarity appears within 100-miles.)